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I know this is an MVP but it seems unclear what meaningful structural improvements you're making over more feature-rich alternatives like Tox?



Thanks for taking a look! This is my first time hearing of Tox, so it’s hard to for me give a great answer at the moment. Based on a quick look at Tox, it seems that a key differentiator is that Chitchatter conversations are ephemeral. Also the Chitchatter client is web-based, so you can just share a room link without anyone having to install anything to participate.


What is Tox actually?

The Tox website doesn't say anything about the architecture, neither does Wikipedia. Apparently it's a library implemented in C and everyone's expected to use that. The Wikipedia reference links are dead, the only 3rd party implementation says "On hold until Tox gets proper docs."


Tox is distributed but your IP is visible. You can use Tox inside Whonix which forces Tox to go through Tor.

Briar is distributed but runs over Tor so your IP is hidden. You can't use Briar over Tor because it already uses Tor so it doesn't work in Whonix.




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